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Thanks Gits! my 5 min interior is just enough i feel to look good but not go too crazy! and I think the grey colour I used is a good choice, as the spartan interior of a battle tank or transport is really only practical, even for the space marines! strange how the pics have re sized correctly today? they look much better! I may do more but i'm feeling under the weather today so i may not be able to :-( i may have to sit on the couch eating choc chip cookies with warm milk and watching star wars!

i've assembled the marines for you and thing one! i'll hopefully have them finished and on the way in the next week or two! I hope you use them in battle well? well, they better do you well in battle more to the point! ;-)

I'm glad you like the progress! what do you think I should do with the tactical arrows on the sides of the rhino? leave them red and paint the skulls or paint the arrows black to contrast which was my original plan?

when's your next update so i can check it out? :-)


Nerdfest09

Generally, I'm a big fan of counter-changing... so I'd do the arrows black.

No rush on the guys, though I'm certainly looking forward to seeing them. Take your time, have fun... that's the whole point of trades after all! I'm sure they'll be great additions to our armies, and I know my inquisitional squads will get a good work out as they'll be my only tactical squads!

Next update was supposed to be tonight, but so far all I've been doing is screwing around on the internet!

I know what you mean! i've been too busy seeing what's going on blog wise to actually do any painting! I think i will agree with the arrows, originally I was going to do that so i'll just stick with the first plan!

i'll check your blogs tonight and chastise you accordingly if you haven't updated!

The assault marines and the bases are looking awesome man! Great work! Love the eyes!

LDP

Gitsplitta wrote:Next update was supposed to be tonight, but so far all I've been doing is screwing around on the internet!

You too? My lictor is still in its box glaring at me!

nerdfest09 wrote: it may even work with a global campaign? the loyalists and renegades of dakka playing along a storyline to a certain goal? maybe some clever fluff addled dakka-ite could work something out for us to play around the world and post up results? actually sounds like it could be fun
Nerdfest09

*sigh* I miss the days of global campaigns. I would love to get involved in something like that, where a bunch of us somehow pull together battle results to make a story driven global campaign. There is nothing I love more then a really cool story driven campaign

By the way those assault marines are looking very nice, as well as those bases!

Thanks LDP and Mr Malevolent! as i always say and probably always will....it's great to hear from you guys! yep, i'm loving how the assault guys look at the moment, sorry I couldn'y do more today, i'm not feeling up to it :-( but I managed to just wash the arms of the assault squad with devlan mud and that's it! so it's slow progress!

A global campaign would be awesome wouldn't it! the last one i can recall was the fall of medusa v! way back in'06' i loved reading white dwarf just to see the progress and wicked bat rep pics and stories, it made for something very very cool! do you think if we come up with a story to follow first we could work out a campaign for those that would wish to join us? i'm keen if you are? do you know anyone well versed in fluff writing? i'm sure Darstarsabre would be into it as well, he's got enough army for 4 campaigns!



Nerdfest09

5 mins to do the rhino interior, that would take me 5 hours!

Good work Nerdy, glad to see you are making progress. Are you going to add some mud/dirt effects to the sides of the Rhino?

Heya Hangy! :-) thanks dude! seriously a quick airbrush with grey and paint the screens like i do my lenses just a bit rougher and she's done! really only took 5 mins! I can remember a couple of years back i spent 4 days painting and detailing my landraider interior, and then....glued the door shut accidentally!

No I don't think i'll dirty up the rhino's too much, I think maybe a little bit of concrete dust may look o.k as they're city fighting but probably not mud at this stage, I'll wait and see how they look when i get some blu tac and pull off all the liquid mask!

How's your Eldar coming along? did you decide on a colour for the weapons for them? i'm still wanting to see some more cool progress from you! your blending and colour choice for your army is fantastic and i just think it's going to look amazing when you're done!


Nerdfest09

nerdfest09 wrote:
A global campaign would be awesome wouldn't it! the last one i can recall was the fall of medusa v! way back in'06' i loved reading white dwarf just to see the progress and wicked bat rep pics and stories, it made for something very very cool! do you think if we come up with a story to follow first we could work out a campaign for those that would wish to join us? i'm keen if you are? do you know anyone well versed in fluff writing? i'm sure Darstarsabre would be into it as well, he's got enough army for 4 campaigns!

Indeed. I would be tempted by this. We should all start pooling this together somewhere since I know we have so many CSM, SM and other players that could make a whole Maelstrom based campaign great.

And as far as army?

Heh. Extinction Angels alone you're looking at the entire 3rd Company and half the 1st Company, plus extra for a traitor Chapter.

I might have to start typing up their fluff at work.

Well then, lets get it started ! :-) no rush but it'd probably take us time to organise I imagine? also means i need to keep painting my army to have enough! ah the beauty of inspiration!

Hmm. Where to post it?

Me and my notepad are working things out. I might be swapping my Eldar out in my Tale of Many Painters for my Extinction Angels!

Do it darkstar, do it....you know you want to! :-) just pm me if you want any assistance for anything and hopefully i'll have some time to get my head around things! but i'm sure there are many that will be keen to throw their hat into the galactic ring! :-)

Heh. Probably going to get a post up for it tonight - just need to sort out who is where and doing what with the background.

Mainly a complete list of the Badab War chapters (as I figure they get special mention for dirty renegades), a list of the 'Warden' chapters such as your Marines Exemplar and a more accurate list of the various Renegade chapters.

We've created a monster. And now I have to paint more purple!

we've got nothing but time on our hands darkstar, lets take it slow and do it properly and Oh so cool! good start on ideas, i'll have a browse tomorrow and pm you if i come up with any ideas!

thanks for helping!


Nerdfest09

Glad to help as it gives me something to do. And actually focuses my painting to my largest army instead of me flitting off to the Eldar (seriously!)

Also, love the assault marine bases. Whole force is stunning and that red is so much nicer when finished.

But yep. Slow. Proper and epic. Let's make this something people can get involved in - ironically it's also well away from the Black Legion and Ultramarines too! (Haha! I defy you standard GW army schemes!)

Sorry for being dense...how do you run a global campaign?

I took your advice - as always and went with dark grey (almost black) looks banging. I only painted 4 though before the misses stuck V on and I ended up watching it.

Typical me, I'm not happy with how they've turned out and have had to stop myself from reaching for the Fairy power spray!

We demand photos before you decide to be unhappy.

And such a campaign would have to be very well organised. With lots of nods toward fluff.

Very much a Renegade-Loyallist themed campaign - also trying to figure out how far out certain chapters stray and patrol - don't want to exclude folk but don't want to do an EoT warden based campaign with...say...Red Corsairs being a bit far from home.

Ah yes my campaign senses are tingling. I'm always up for some global campaigning, if you guys get some basic stuff together let me know a.s.a.p. as I'm on the fence for choosing what to designate my "normal" force, taking a bit of a break from True-Scaling and focusing on building a functional army in less time So in other words, I need to play some frikkin' games haha

Man I'd totally forgotten about the old global campaigns! Waiting for the new WD to see how Ichar IV was going was genuinely nail-biting for my teenage self.

OMG! i'd totally forgotten about Ichar IV that was an awesome campaign as well! I think it was the story driven bat reps with really interesting photo's that did it for me! so much going on in the background you could almost hear the battle raging! I doubt we could percieve something as grand as that, but we'll have a shot at some fun though! :-) you got an army and can join WarMill?

On a side note speaking of Bat reps and things, can i have peoples opinions on whether I should use this thread as my one stop Nerdfest09 shop and post up my other w.i.p's and bat reps when I play? just so i'm not making threads left right and centre :-) and i've got a couple of non Exemplar marines i'll be starting soon too.


Nerdfest09

I have this itching sensation in the back of my skull to start a small 40k army and figure, if I did, I would keep my random WIP blog seperate and start a new one for my 40k army. This probably won't happen, since I'm an incredibly slow painter, but it would help to keep the random blog random and the army blog consistent. Just my two cents.

I think i may just throw everything in together ! I won't have heaps so it shouldn't get in the way of the Exemplars! ;-) and when the Necrons get released i may just start a blog for them as well!

speaking of Exemplars, i'm working on another tac squad as we speak! and have done some more work on mr Librarian, so we should have some updates in the next day or two (hopefully)

i'll be looking forward to perusing your blogs as well Moltar, and you should def start a small 40k army! any ideas which one?

Yeah, more than likely, I would do Word Bearers, because I just think they're hands-down the coolest Legion. Something about them and their dark rituals. The way they destroy and rebuild cities in the chaos god's image, constantly corrupting the pillars and symbols of the empire. They exude this perfect idea of we're right and righteous and you and your false god is nothing but lies. They also are great for converting and kit bashing. Using DA, BT and other robes and such with long litanies of hate and scroll and script work out the wazoo. Just pure chaos undivided with an excuse to field lots of demons. I also think devoting an army to one god would drive me nuts, since I think they're all too awesome. The story of Lorgar is pretty awesome too, how he came to the realization that the Emperor is wrong and the chaos gods are infinite, despite leading the most devote worshippers of the Emperor. If you have the time, Lexicanum has a great summary of their story: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Word_Bearers

On the other hand, since the original Dawn of War game, I've had a concept for my own SM chapter called The Iron Will. They would essentially be a Iron Hands successor chapter with lots of bionics and steam-punkish gears and cogs. Which would work out as I have a batch of wrist watch pieces. I also like that the color scheme I came up with for them is unique to any GW branded chapter. But I've always been drawn to the dark powers of chaos and, "evil will always win, because good is dumb." (Lord Helmet, Spaceballs)

Look forward to seeing your finished Libby and the new tac squad.

Cheers moltar, your ideas sound good! i'd actually love to see both of them done by you! the iron will in particular I like, maybe you could have them as an iron warriors sucessor so you can still run some chaos goodies in there?

but if you decide on the word bearers you have to make your captain hq just an all gold and ornate arrogant so and so! also a very cool army, I've toyed with a chaos daemon army in my mind but I just can't help but play the 'good' guys! even if dark helmet says otherwise....we've lost the bleeps, we've lost the creeps, and we've lost the sweeps!... :-)

Im a fan of one blog with random junk in that gets updates more often then multiple specific blogs that get one update a month, or just die out.

Then it shall be so! I swear on the great marine swap that I Nerdfest09 will continue the nerdiest blogging I can muster, including random musings and all things 40k! plus it's easier for me to keep track of too! ;-) i'm going to pop up a time frame step by step for the tac squad i built, so i can see just how long it takes me from assembled to fully painted! I won't include assembly time as everyone has there own level of what it takes including removing mold lines and so forth but it should be fun none the less!


nerdfest09

I will confess that random blogs work better - keeps everything in one place and though it might not be nice and organised and specific you're at least updating it regularly.

I look forward. About to start typing an intial post in the campaign section to start rounding folk up and developing things for the campaign idea.

(I got far too distracted with my own Extinction Angels.)

Thanks DarkStarsabre! i've been distracted due to being crook again! but i'm back on track now, i've eaten myself through copious amounts of sweets and high carb foods and i'm ready to campaign! just let me know if I can do anything to help? should we have a cut off point for players? and if we get a good thing we could always have a round 2? maybe have a draw or list of terrain/cities it will be fought upon, my army is based for city fight so i'd like to city fight the crap out of someone

Haha. Initial development first - I figure we can get Dakka thinking and make something beautiful! Will edit this post with the link when it's up!


http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/374906.page

And let the mass brainstorming begin!